A fabulous array of speakers and workshops, need-based airfare scholarship help is available, and thanks to our underwriters, students at RCA-affiliated schools get in free! What’s holding you back?! All the information is here – we look forward to seeing you at Hope Church in Holland, Michigan September 28 – 30!
SUPPORT FOR ROOM FOR ALL’S MISSION COMES IN MANY FORMS: Four talented men met at Hope College theater classes about 15 years ago, ended up in Brooklyn, added a couple more fine musicians and started a band called The Hollows. Eight years, two full-length albums, a couple EP’s, several music videos and a national tour later,…
Who can predict when, or how, seeds will take root? Rev. Dr. Mara Joy Norden attended a “Building an Inclusive Church” workshop several years ago, and it led to a practical interrogation of one sentence buried in an appendix in the Toolkit resource that she received at that event. She and her congregation, The Community,…
Six “Room for All” rostered churches*, along with one additional RCA congregation, recently finalized a process to dual affiliate as The Reformed Association of the UCC New York Conference. Our response is layered with joy and sorrow: We rejoice… … that LGBTQ people in these congregations know beyond doubt that they belong, free to live,…
RfA’s powerhouse conference is coming Sept. 28-30 in Holland, Michigan! Discounted rates are available until July 28, and early registration is especially important for those needing a hotel room! All you need to know about the conference is here, and online registration is here. Printed registration brochures will be mailed to RfA rostered churches; let…
Room for All is grateful to confirm that two proposed amendments to the RCA Book of Church Order that would have proscribed and enforced the prohibition of same-sex marriage ceremonies in RCA congregations have failed to garner a two-thirds majority of classis approvals required for ratification and are therefore defeated. (As of March 21, amendment…
In our mission for LGBTQ affirmation, RfA supports, educates, and advocates. Sometimes those are disparate activities, but now and then they come together in one initiative or resource. This month, we have circulated two resources that, we believe, fall into all three categories. You’ll find the greeting offered below, “On Being Touched,” along with recent…
Many written and spoken words are being exchanged throughout the RCA in response to the 2016 General Synod recommendations having to do with amending the Book of Church Order to constitutionalize and “assure” compliance of the 2002 “one man/one woman” marriage liturgy. And that’s as it should be. We believe we’re at our Reformed best…